Excerpt: "e;Let that sugar-bowl alone, Posy,"e; said Tom, as Posy extracted a lump while they were waiting for Papa and Mamma to come down to breakfast "e;I'm not taking it for myself,"e; answered Posy, as plainly as the large lump in her mouth permitted her to speak; "e;I'm only just getting a lump for Dicky.
This being an Alger novel there are several chance encounters that give the hero a chance to better himself without exerting himself overly or even being particularly virtuous.
"e;Reuben Stone's Discovery"e; by Edward Stratemeyer chronicles the journey of a young protagonist, Reuben Stone, who stumbles upon a mystery that involves hidden knowledge and treasure.
The class of boys described in the present volume was called into existence only a few years since, but they are already so numerous that one can scarcely ride down town by any conveyance without having one for a fellow-passenger.
Excerpt: "e;The writer of this trifling Volume was suddenly sentenced, in the cold evening of his life, to drink the mineral waters of one of the bubbling springs, or brunnens, of Nassau.
Excerpt: "e;My aim in this book on Mythology for young readers has been to give them solid knowledge on the subject, as far as it is advisable to go with im mature minds, based upon the most recent investigations of scholars, and to select the myths used in illustration of the plan, with a View to giving them interesting stories to read, which will, almost unconsciously to themselves, lay a firm foundation for the fascinating study of Comparative Mythology, should they wish to go more deeply into it in the future.
'Ragged Dick' is a fourteen-year-old bootblack - he smokes, drinks occasionally, and sleeps on the streets - but he is anxious "e;to turn over a new leaf, and try to grow up 'spectable"e;.
Fred Fenton is the Erie train boy, a young lad selling sundries on the trains traveling north from New York and through this work supporting his mother and siblings as the family struggles to survive in a New York tenement house.